thank you cards. I write one a day and carry them around with me. I'm not certain why.

if they're a little wrinkled at times, it's because they've been in my pants pocket next to my ring of keys, in my wallet between a photo of my cousin and a credit card, and in my shirt pocket with all my pens. I'll try my best not to put any of them through the wash.

also:

"once, in the army, when i had what might be termed ambulatory pleurisy for something over three months, my first real relief came only when i had placed a perfectly innocent-looking blake lyrics in my shirt pocket and worn it like a poultice for a day or so."

j. d. salinger, "raise high the roofbeam, carpenters"

"forget about the things you want,

be thankful for what all you got."

dan auerbach, "goin' home"

"if the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice."

meister eckhart

xo